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 Ten years ago on a cold dark night

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there was someone killed 'neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene but they all agreed

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that the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me

The judge said son what is your alibi

if you were somewhere else than you don't have to die.

I spoke not a word, though it meant my life

for I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife

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She walks the hills in a long black veil

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she visits my grave when the night winds wail

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nobody knows, nobody sees

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nobody knows but me.

The scaffold was high and eternity near

she stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans

in a long black veil, she cries over my bones.